Astronomy fans will be able to see two of our neighbouring planets in the night sky next week without the need for costly binoculars or telescopes.

Jupiter and Venus are set to be visible just above the horizon towards the southeast on Monday, November 13.

The two planets will only be 16 arcminutes (half the width of the full moon) apart and - providing there's no cloud cover - will be nice and bright in the sky.

The best time to see the two planets will be about 40 minutes before sunrise on Monday morning.

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Be careful not to leave it too late or the sky will become too bright to make out the planets.

"If you do manage to catch Venus and Jupiter together at the start of UK civil twilight, the pair will be just 6° above the east-southeast horizon," explained Ade Ashford from Astronomy Now.

"Seeing conditions are therefore likely to be poor, but telescope users may just catch sight of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto in the configuration depicted at the top of the page."